12 months ago I founded The Binfluencers in Keswick as locals were fed up with folk pitching tents at the side of lakes which is illegal and then all the mess they leave also. We also noticed a huge amount of general litter and huge amounts of poo bags just been discarded throughout the national park. I decided locals voices needed to be heard and the extent of such issues needed to be shown. We do regular litter picks, especially around Derwentwater and we managed to gain media interest. This year we have been collaborating with a local filmmaker who is making a film and and a animated short information film about these issues

This campaign helps save money for householders. Reduces water demand from rivers and reservoirs. Helps prevent flooding. Also rainwater is better for plants. Subsidising water butts is a simple low cost policy which would generate immediate benefits. 

We're sick of it. Sick of the lies, sick of the greed, and sick of a system rigged against us. This is a scandal and this dirty business must end. For more than 30 years water companies have put corporate greed and profit before public health and the environment.    Our privatised water system has failed.  Sewage pollution is making people sick, destroying livelihoods, and wrecking our environment. Whilst bills rise, water companies extract billions and fail to invest. Whilst they get rich, we get sick.  This is no accident. It was a choice. Since privatisation, the Government and regulators have looked the other way and let this scandal fester. Now our waters are some of the dirtiest in Europe.   After more than three decades of broken pipes, broken promises and a devastating human cost, your Government has pledged “once in a generation” plans to clean up the water industry. But in reality, your plans lock us into the privatised system where profit comes first and the public gets sick.    What are we calling for?     1. Public health must come first and profit from sewage pollution must end.   2. The Government must end the current privatised water industry.   3. The Government must take back control of water companies and restructure them, removing the profit motive, to ensure they operate for people and the environment. No option, including public ownership, should be off the table.  It’s time to end the profit-driven sewage scandal and put #PeopleBeforePayouts 

In our rural area there is almost no brown-field building land, so field after green field is going under concrete. Trees are being felled. The water table is higher than ever before. In the current climate conditions, houses are flooding, roads are flooding. Sewage is pouring across our streets and into play areas. And still we are forced to build more houses to meet impossible Government targets. We call for the Government to purchase local land and fund its conversion to Wetlands, to absorb and hold surface water, to reduce flooding, to slow the loss of biodiversity and form an environment where our increasingly cornered wildlife can thrive. 

Hundreds of people use this public right of way path every day to get to school, work, shops, visit family or simply to walk in the Park. When flooded, the path is unsafe and impassable. This has a huge effect on everyday life, extending the time is takes to get to work and school and limiting all park activities.  Raise awareness by signing the petition, so that local residents can use the river path again!

These were initially used only when teams came onto the pitch but are increasingly used every time points are scored.  Every use pollutes the air, adding to climate change, and can't be good for fans - and especially players - breathing in the smoke. We should be doing all we can to reduce the use of fossil fuels, and this is just one example where they are needlessly escalating, damaging health and the climate. 

It’s one of the most dangerous poisons you’ve probably never heard of – linked to cancer, fertility issues, and even birth defects – and now it’s everywhere. "Forever chemicals" (PFAS) don’t  break down in the environment. Instead, they build up over time, and are now found in our drinking water, food, blood, and even the human placenta. [1] But right now, we have a great opportunity to push for their ban. The EU is already racing to a full ban, and the UK government is holding a consultation asking for the public’s opinion. [2] Let’s flood the consultation with 100,000 voices to demand a ban on these poisons! This isn't just a petition. When we reach our target, 38 Degrees will submit our signatures to the official DEFRA consultation. Add your name and share -- before the consultation closes. These toxic chemicals are hiding in plain sight – in everyday items we use without a second thought: non-stick pans, waterproof coats, make-up, and food packaging. [3] PFAS are almost impossible to avoid. They seep into our daily lives, and stay literally forever.  But while Europe is banning the entire group of over 10,000 PFAS across industries, from food packaging to toys, the UK government is only talking about banning them in firefighting foam. British families deserve the same protection as those in Europe — and we have a window of opportunity to fix this. The government is deciding its "chemical strategy" right now. Let’s show them that British voters won't accept second-class safety, and push them to match the EU's ban. Add your name to the consultation, to tell Environment Secretary Emma Reynolds to ban forever chemicals in the UK. NOTES: [1] Newsweek: Forever Chemicals Disrupt Placenta, May Add Risk to Pregnancies [2] FieldFisher: PFAS Regulation in the UK and European Union: November 2025 Overview [3] The Guardian: Are PFAS in everything? What you need to know about ‘forever chemicals’

⚠️  Shock planning return for Our Village?! 🏡❌ I’m honestly baffled 😳 to see this planning application back on Somerset Council’s table. Not often that happens — usually, once it’s gone through an officer’s report, that’s it. So why now? Here’s the kicker: it’s an outline application 😡. That means:  • No actual houses need to be built yet 🏚️  • They just get to change the principle of the land from agricultural ➡️ housing 🌾➡🏠  • And it could push our village boundaries further out 🚧 Meanwhile, there’s plenty of land already available ✅ — old factory sites, brownfield plots, areas in the local plan. We don’t need to eat up more countryside just to satisfy developers’ profits 💸. Also, I’m incredibly puzzled .. 🤷‍♂️why is there no new officers report or any assessment and  why  has gone directly to planning board From what I can see, this has all the same problems as the last plan:  • Wrong type of housing ❌  • Wrong location ❌  • Minimal benefits to the village ❌ And here’s a huge problem: we STILL don’t even have a secondary school locally 🏫. Children would continue to be forced onto circular bus routes to Shepton Mallet or Castle Cary 🚍💨, and those additional transport needs are often ignored. This isn’t just inconvenient — it’s a real community failure. And don’t get me started on developer 💰💰💰 contributions… supposedly to help the community, but Somerset Council has one of the worst records for making developers actually pay up 💀. “Oh, they can’t meet their profit margin” 💸… and the council rolls over. Seriously? 😤 We need homes, yes. But we need: ✅ Affordable homes ✅ Properly designed homes ✅ Homes in the right places Not another cookie-cutter sprawl ruining our village and our community 😡 Perhaps this is yet another incompetent error administration? By  who ? The developer ‘chancing it”.. someone else ? 🕵️🪽🐷🐖🪽- I mean given it is adjacent to a former pig farm perhaps flying pigs are as likely! If you care about our village, this is the kind of thing we can’t let slip through. Speak up, comment, and ask questions before it’s too late 🗣️✊

In 2024, single-use plastic bag sales in England rose for the first time since the carrier bag levy was introduced in 2015 - a 7% increase, reaching 437 million bags. Shockingly, Ocado alone was responsible for 221 million of them, 30 million more than in 2023 - and the highest figure of any other supermarket. Although Ocado points to its “closed-loop” system, with the majority of bags collected from customers, these bags are not reused but only recycled. Recycling still requires a LOT of energy and generates more pollution - and the better option is to just stop making them at all. Ocado must act urgently and responsibly: phasing out single-use plastic carrier bags, investing in truly reusable alternatives, and reversing this troubling upward trend in plastic waste. Customers want solutions - not excuses. 

Landowners burn heather for driven grouse shooting, leading to harmful air pollution, increased flood risk, and increased wildfire risk, all while releasing tonnes of carbon into the air, accelerating climate change. Our children’s health and futures need to be prioritised over a wealthy person’s sport Wealthy landowners are burning our moorlands for grouse shooting on the land. But the toxic smoke from this burning blows over surrounding communities and releases tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere. It’s terrible for our health, for the planet, and for animals. It needs to stop.  Burning heather causes harmful air pollution, resulting in spikes in hospital admissions in nearby communities. Notably, the event on the 9th October 2023 in Sheffield, when burning on Moscar Moor caused smoke to blanket the city, raised levels of harmful PM2.5 air pollution to five times the legal limit. The highest levels were recorded at Lowfield Primary School. Children are particularly vulnerable to poor air quality, and those children were exposed to harmful levels of air pollution for hours that day. Our children deserve to breathe clean air. The peatlands of England are perhaps our biggest carbon store - more than the forests of the UK, Germany, and France combined - yet burning them releases tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere, accelerating climate change. These dry, burnt moorlands also cause rainwater to simply run off them, causing flooding in nearby communities. A healthy, wet moorland with lots of sphagnum moss acts as a natural flood defence, soaking up all the excess water. A wetter moorland also helps stop wildfires from spreading. Landowners argue that controlled burning stops wildfires, but because the land has been drained it is more likely to catch fire.  As parents, we worry so much about the futures of our children, and all children. With the climate crisis in full swing, we are seeing more floods and wildfires every year, yet this incredibly valuable asset on our doorstep is being burnt to a crisp. We need to be doing all we can to protect our kids now and into the future. Our children deserve a liveable climate. Additionally, the practice of grouse moor management has created a monoculture. Did you know that real healthy moorlands are more than just heather? We should be seeing a much wider variety of plants and animals on our moors, but the land is managed to inflate the population of grouse to the detriment of many other species. Landowners and gamekeepers are accused of killing birds of prey, corvids, and small mammals - anything they see as a threat to the grouse population. Not to mention the poor grouse themselves, who are killed simply for fun.  When you take your kids for a walk through a grouse moor, they won’t see much. They are devoid of life, with few birds or insects. Compared to a walk through a healthy moorland, where they may spend hours foraging bilberries, finding frogspawn, admiring mosses, hunting for minibeasts, and spotting birds like kestrels and stonechats. Our children deserve thriving moorlands to joyfully explore. They deserve good health and hope for the future. Our children deserve an end to moorland burning.

The Water Maze in Victoria Park, Bristol is a unique and historically significant feature.  • Design and Construction: The maze was designed by Peter Milner and constructed between 1983 and 1984 by the Avon County Community Environment Scheme and Bristol City Engineers. It was built to commemorate the end of sewage discharge into the River Avon  • Water Source: The maze is supplied by spring water flowing through an old pipe originating from Knowle Hill. This pipe is part of a historic water system that once carried clean water to St Mary Redcliffe Church in the 12th century  • Structure and Layout: The maze is circular, with a diameter of approximately 8.5 meters. It features a shallow brick channel through which water flows from the center outward. The path is about 15 cm wide, with a 21 cm gap between paths. The layout is unicursal, meaning it has a single, non-branching path with no dead ends  • Symbolism and Inspiration: The design is inspired by a roof boss in St Mary Redcliffe Church. It symbolizes Bristol’s historical and modern efforts to secure clean water, referencing both medieval and 20th-century infrastructure developments • Location: The maze is situated on the northeast side of Victoria Park, near St Luke’s Road, between Bedminster and Totterdown. Unfortunately it now runs dry, it has not had water flowing through it for some years now.  We want to put pressure on Bristol City Council and Wessex Water to reinstate the water, which is a crucial part of the Water Maze in Victoria Park.   If you are a resident of Windmill Hill or a visitor to the park, please add your name to the petition to make this happen.  How can you have a Water Maze with no water, it is a heritage feature and requires the respect that it deserves.

  Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where once stock cars and speedway bikes lined up to cross the finish line first, the dust has now settled and nature thrives on the former Arena Essex Raceway site. Its complex history has led to a unique 52ha mosaic of brownfield features, calcareous grassland, flowery Thames Terrace Grassland, bare ground, scrub and young woodland - earning it a nationally important invertebrate population and Local Wildlife Site status.   This hidden secret in Thurrock has no public rights of way, but much of the site has been used for many years for fishing and informal walking and cycling. It has also been found by wildlife in an increasingly developed landscape. Its 52ha are home to hundreds of species of invertebrates, including Brown-banded Carder Bee (Bombus humilis), Five-banded Weevil-wasp (Cerceris quinquefasciata) and the Dingy Skipper butterfly (Erynnis tages)- with many more to be found- as well as rare plants such as Endangered Broad-leaved Cudweed (Filago pyramidata) and birds such as Red Listed Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos).   The chequered flag was waved on the Raceway in 2018 and its future as a wildlife haven is now at risk from a new data centre campus for Google. The Google-associated ‘Global Infrastructure UK Limited’ plans would lead to over 80% of its precious Open Mosaic Habitat on Previously Developed Land being lost. Meanwhile, Google boldly touts claims in its 2025 Sustainability Report of “Cultivating nature on our campuses” and “rebuilding nature in the very places it’s been paved over”.  Buglife is calling on Google to live up to its sustainability claims by changing course and sparing this unique wildlife site. Tell Google to search for somewhere else for their development!